Moving Strip Irradiation in the Treatment of Extensive Neoplastic Disease in the Chest

Thirteen patients with intrathoracic metastasis were treated with radiotherapy. Response was obtained in 75% (9/12) of cases and was complete in 50% (6/12). There was extrathoracic metastasis at time of radiotherapy in six patients. Complete disappearance of intrathoracic metastasis occurred only in patients without extrathoracic metastasis; only three of six had primaries known to be radiosensitive (Wilms' tumor and Ewing's sarcoma). In three patients the intrathoracic metastasis progressed after radiotherapy and all had extrathoracic metastasis. It is concluded that radiotherapy is an effective modality of treatment of intrathoracic metastasis and that favorable response is associated with the absence of extrathoracic metastasis rather than the known radiosensitivity of the primary.

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Wilms' tumor: Cure of malignant pleural effusion exclusively with chemotherapy

Canpolat

Jaffe

1995

Med. Pediatr. Oncol.

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A malignant pleural effusion was diagnosed by thoracentesis in a 12-year-old patient with an established diagnosis of Wilms' tumor. He was treated with chemotherapy and achieved a reduction in the size of the primary tumor and resolution of the effusion. The primary tumor was then resected and chemotherapy continued for a total of 18 months. At the request of the parents, radiation therapy to the thorax was withheld. The patient has remained free of disease for the past 8 years.

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Moving Strip Irradiation in the Treatment of Extensive Neoplastic Disease in the Chest

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Malignant pleural disease. A radiotherapeutic approach to the problem

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Wilms' tumor: Cure of malignant pleural effusion exclusively with chemotherapy

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